Regardless of what you’ve heard, seen or believe about Larry
Brooks and his sudden departure as team manager of San
Manuel L&M Racing last year,
or anything that his previous
sponsored rider, James Stewart, may have or had not to do
with it, the fact is, Brooks has
moved on with his life.
Last week he emerged from
almost a year of seclusion
when Feld Motorsports, the
promoter of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM
Championship series, hosted
its annual pre-season press
conference at Angel Stadium.
After a short conversation with
him, you can tell that Brooks
is obviously settled into a very
Larry Brooks is back
and managing the
new Supercross.com
Honda team.
comfortable relationship with
his new business partner Jeremy McGrath in his new role
as race-team manager for the
new Supercross.com Honda
Racing team.
There’s no doubt Brooks has
had to deal with his fair share
of hard-to-deal-with riders over
his long career as a team manager, which include stints with
KTM, McGrath Racing and
most recently San Manuel Yamaha, and he seems very relieved that his current rider is
Andrew Short, one of the most
mild-manner, easy-going and
appreciative riders in the paddock today. All seems good
for Larry Brooks again, and he
is anxious to leave some of his
troubled past behind him and
begin a new adventure with a
new gig.
First of all, tell us about
your new team and how it
all came about?
I had some free time on
my hands, shall we say, the
middle of Supercross season
last year, and I spoke to Jer-
emy, and he had concerns
and wanted to know what
happened [regard his sudden
departure from San Manuel
Yamaha]. So I explained it to
him and he mentioned that if
I ever thought about doing a
race team again that he would
be interested. He’d been out
of it for a while, you know, Mc-
Grath Racing in 2003, was the
last time he had been a team
owner, and it sounded like he
was interested in getting back
into it.
